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Posted November 24, 2014
"Sixty-five Sierra routes that first summer; about a dozen the next, a fifth of them first ascents. Brutal-as-hell approaches with seventy-pound packs, decrepit knees and bad footwear. I blame Steve, but really, he and I were just the syringe plungers, and the Sierra Nevada was the heroin."
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Posted November 21, 2014
Peter Croft ambles along "the local epicenter of sideways mountaineering"—the High Sierra's Palisades—in his own Peter Croft kind of way.
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Posted November 20, 2014
Joan Jensen searches through old boxes to uncover memories of her daring yet methodical soulmate, the late Don Jensen.
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Posted November 19, 2014
One tenacious historian relives the early days of Palisades climbing.
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Posted November 18, 2014
I thought I knew the Palisades, my home range. That is until I was deep in the process of writing a Mountain Profile about them for Alpinist 48.
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Posted November 12, 2014
"...As Marc neared the station, he asked if all climbing in the Rockies was this good. I had to apologize for spoiling him on his first route."
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Posted November 4, 2014
There are only a handful of days in a climber's life where weather, conditions and partner line up like the planets aligning to create a rare event: a magical first ascent.
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Posted October 30, 2014
An interview with Valley speed climbers Quinn Brett, Libby Sauter and Mayan Smith-Gobat.
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Posted October 9, 2014
In 2006, Barry Blanchard wrote "The Calling" for Issue 15. In writing his new memoir, The Calling: A Life Rocked by Mountains, Blanchard used the Alpinist feature story as a springboard to continue exploring the climbs and partnerships that developed from his childhood musings growing up in Calgary.
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Posted October 3, 2014
As a mother, wife, climber, cartographer and self-described "accidental adventurer," Barbara Washburn was the antitheses of a '40s housewife. "Sometimes [my] home would be in an igloo, at 12,000 feet, sharing Tang-flavored fig pudding with my husband; or as the lightest climber going first to test the cornices on a narrow exposed ridge; or staring out at summit views that no one else had seen."
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